Your most irritating mob fights?

Tavore1138 · May 2016

I may be alone here but there are certain mobs (not bosses) that are not hard to fight but are just annoying for some reason and I hate fighting them and I am wondering if I am the only one who find these particular mobs annoying or if there are other similar ones I have forgotten... as I say these are not challenging or threatening in any way, they just have mechanics which make them annoying or time wasting...

1. Ice Wraiths - the pain with these is that you cannot target them after their mechanics. So you dodge their red attacks and then have to wait around for them to become target-able again so you can finish them. WHY??

2. Low health bandit mobs with summons - easy to kill but they drink their potion and summon a wolf or bear... which is equally easy to kill EXCEPT that for some reason you are then stuck in combat for some time after you have killed them! What a pointless mechanic...

3. Vosh Rakh Devoted - so they jump up into the air and land in a easily avoidable red circle and then you cannot target them for several seconds... they aren't doing anything during that time, they are no danger they are just not available to hit... wasting my precious game time...

I'm sure other people have their own pet hates - maybe someone will read them and fix them, or maybe you can just pour out those frustrations...

Turelus · May 2016

Tavore1138 wrote: »

3. Vosh Rakh Devoted - so they jump up into the air and land in a easily avoidable red circle and then you cannot target them for several seconds... they aren't doing anything during that time, they are no danger they are just not available to hit... wasting my precious game time...

This one is actually fixed in Dark Brotherhood update.

As for annoying mobs I can't think of anything off the top of my head, I guess ones with CC attacks they used a lot in groups just because they won't kill me but I hate standing around doing nothing once out of stamina/break free.

cyclonus11 · May 2016

Rats & stuff, for getting in the way of my targeting. It's quite irritating to spend my ultimate on a centipede.

Tryxus · May 2016

Archers in Shark Teeth's Grotto

They always dodge the first hit >_>

Jaronking · May 2016

Imperial City mobs are very annoying am just trying to chase after and gank this dude and he pull 3 mobs into me or when am dueling and the mobs respond and we have to stop to kill the mob.

Totalitarian · May 2016

All the mobs in Orsinium and Thieves Guild due to their special abilities.

The trash soldiers who have shields and mercilessly shield bash you.

Healers/cauterizers who go and heal themselves/others

NB-like mobs who cloak and stun you, or use that Night Rune ability and stun you.

Also, the mobs who can cast a spell to shield others from damage.

Really just anything with CC or a heal.

nimander99 · May 2016

Ice Wraiths... For sure the most hated mob in all of Tamriel.

Nestor · May 2016

Ice Wraiths just because
Spiders for the annoying attack sound

cyclonus11 · May 2016

Also, mudcrabs. Stupid things won't let me go into stealth so I can attack the real mobs, so I often have to end up fighting them first.

Tavore1138 · May 2016

Tryxus wrote: »

Archers in Shark Teeth's Grotto

They always dodge the first hit >_>

Ach, I'd forgotten about those - really annoying to stealth up to them and waste it all on a missed attack.

psychotic13 · May 2016

*** WASPS!

Lynx7386 · May 2016

Any zone boss that does so much damage per hit you cant survive more than a couple seconds. These are nearly impossible to solo or even kill in small groups without exploiting one gimmick or another. A good example is the rat master in ebonheart zones: I had a DK a while back that could kill this boss no problem, simply because of reflective scales shooting back all the arrows (which take a huge chunk of your health if they hit). My other characters could never kill that boss solo.

Boss fights aside, the most annoying would have to be wisp mothers, having to deal with a massive swarm of wisps while the wisp mother keeps splitting up and being a pain in the arse.

I also hate mudcrabs at low levels doing that burrowing thing where you cant hit them. Interesting thing I noticed when playing a new sorceror: If you cast daedric curse on a mudcrab and they burrow, the curse will explode/expire but do no damage.

milkbox · May 2016

2nd on wisp mothers.

And the netch adds in vet darkshade.

*shudder*

Hammy01 · May 2016

Tavore1138 wrote: »

I may be alone here but there are certain mobs (not bosses) that are not hard to fight but are just annoying for some reason and I hate fighting them and I am wondering if I am the only one who find these particular mobs annoying or if there are other similar ones I have forgotten... as I say these are not challenging or threatening in any way, they just have mechanics which make them annoying or time wasting...

1. Ice Wraiths - the pain with these is that you cannot target them after their mechanics. So you dodge their red attacks and then have to wait around for them to become target-able again so you can finish them. WHY??

2. Low health bandit mobs with summons - easy to kill but they drink their potion and summon a wolf or bear... which is equally easy to kill EXCEPT that for some reason you are then stuck in combat for some time after you have killed them! What a pointless mechanic...

3. Vosh Rakh Devoted - so they jump up into the air and land in a easily avoidable red circle and then you cannot target them for several seconds... they aren't doing anything during that time, they are no danger they are just not available to hit... wasting my precious game time...

I'm sure other people have their own pet hates - maybe someone will read them and fix them, or maybe you can just pour out those frustrations...

Yes yes yes on all three and in the same order!!! Funny you posted this because I was just thinking today about how much I hate the Ice wraiths.

brandon · May 2016

I personally really hate wisps. They are so tiny, but there seem to always be a ton of them.

code65536 · May 2016

Spiders. I hate the first half of nonvet Spindle because of them. They self-heal and have a tiny hitbox that makes it difficult to bash them.

NativeJoe · May 2016

Eh...

Anything that CC's, avoids damage, and in anyway just prolongs a fight that it Zero threat to me. When they do this , they should atleast make it look epic like the unfinished dolman titan, easy to solo, but entertaining.

driosketch · May 2016

NPC nightblades, just as annoying as the real thing. Always open up with teleport strike just as you start on the mob group.

Archers or enemies that stop to throw something, especially when you have more than 1, because they like to stand out of the kill box.

Taleof2Cities · May 2016

Though they are technically a boss (and not mobs), we had trouble last time with those effing incineration beetles in the Blessed Crucible.

For that matter, the tiger and bear swarms in BC are equally irritating ...

magnusthorek · May 2016

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Rats & stuff, for getting in the way of my targeting. It's quite irritating to spend my ultimate on a centipede.

This!

brandonv516 · May 2016

Dreadmages and any NB npc clones.

redspecter23 · May 2016

1. Blinky things in WGT. They need a cooldown on that blinky BS
2. The mobs at the end of vet Fungal Grotto on the way to the boss. Just pure annoyance. It's like fighting 12 really bad pvp nightblades. Spambush, bleh.
3. Healers in WGT. When they put down that stall circle of annoyance it just draws out the fight. They WILL die, but it just takes that much longer.

FriedEggSandwich · May 2016

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Also, mudcrabs. Stupid things won't let me go into stealth so I can attack the real mobs, so I often have to end up fighting them first.

Yeah, just mudcrabs. Why they got to be so crabby?

code65536 · May 2016

redspecter23 wrote: »

1. Blinky things in WGT. They need a cooldown on that blinky BS

Grievous Twilights. The worst offender, though, is that big one at the end of vICP...

Vaoh · May 2016

Solariken · May 2016

Harvesters and Ice Wraiths. >:(

code65536 · May 2016

The Fear-spamming ones: Fearkyn, Worm Cult Fear Mages, Scaled Court Illusionists, etc. Some of the pulls in vet Elden are so infuriating if your group doesn't use AoE interrupts (DK Deep Breath, Templar Spears).

Brrrofski · May 2016

Anything that hovers above the ground.

After you gap close them you're sort of behind them. Really annoying.

Mojmir · May 2016

any mob that uses floor slowing mechanics,really zos? you over did this again in VMOL.

SanTii.92 · May 2016

Obsidian soldiers, aka nighbtblades on ic or in arena 9 ma